Novel realization of GIC based wave digital filters using Al-Alaoui transform

By using the concepts of wave characterization, Al-Alaoui transform and generalized immittance converter (GIC), a new digital GIC structure is proposed which is capable of realizing all the standard second-order digital filter sections. The Al-Alaoui transform is utilized for reference circuit discretization, leading to development of second-order digital filter sections which possess better noise properties than the conventional GIC and GIC discretized using the fractional bilinear transform. The proposed second-order digital filter sections are used as building blocks in cascade synthesis of filter. Two design examples are considered to analyze the effectiveness of the proposed filter sections and their comparison with the other filter sections is performed in terms of quantization noise and approximation to analog filter response. The proposed synthesis yields lowpass and highpass filters that have a better signal to noise ratio and better approximation of the analog filter frequency response than the conventional GIC digital filters and fractional GIC digital filters. Keywords: Digital filter, Al-Alaoui transform, Generalized immittance converter, Wave equation